Switzer, however, first ran the Boston Marathon in 1967, when women were not allowed to compete. She started the nonprofit 261 Fearless in 2015, which uses running to empower women around the world.
"My goal is to reach women in places right now where they're not allowed to leave the house alone, drive a auto or get an education, " Switzer said last week, according to WBZ.
"I do this to inspire people". Now 70 years old, Switzer completed the race in about four-and-a-half hours, about 10 minutes slower than her time in 1967.
This year, 13,698 women signed up for the marathon, amounting to 45 percent of the total entries according to the Boston Athletic Association.
Geoffrey Kirui and Edna Kiplagat produced a Kenyan sweep at the Boston Marathon, winning the men's and women's races on Monday by conquering the race's hilly final miles to establish their dominance.
Kirui, who gave Kenya's first victory in the men's race since Wesley Korir's victory in 2012, was toe-to-toe with American Galen Rupp at the 35km mark in 1:48:19 before breaking to win.
On Monday, as a marathon medal was hung around her neck and photographers and camera crews swarmed her, women were heard chanting, "Thank you, Kathrine!"
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Jose Luis Sanchez lost part of his left leg while serving in Afghanistan when he stepped on an IED while out on patrol. According to Runner's World, the flag was sent to him by his patrol unit with inspirational messages written to him as he recovered in the hospital and is the reason he made a decision to run in the first place. He chose to take the flag for a run Monday "for others to be inspired, to be motivated".
"I want to recognize veterans and everyone who thinks they can't do something", Sanchez told Runner's World. I'm channeling it to be positive and to give back to whatever I have taken away from the community. Beach first ran in the race back in 1968 when he was 18.
"But if I get near the finish line and I look over there and I see somebody who's got gray hair and is maybe is in my age group, I'm just going to kick a little butt", Switzer said, laughing.
Security was high along the course, which begins in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and passes through Boston's suburbs to the finish line, where a pair of ethnic Chechen brothers on April 15, 2013 set off two homemade bombs, killing three people and injuring more than 200.
This year, Beach crossed the line in 5:01:26.
Women, it was felt at the time, were just too fragile to run such a long way.
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